Download or read book Perfectly Japanese written by Merry White and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-09-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are Japanese families in crisis? In this study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments of 'family making' in the past hundred years - the Meiji era and postwar period - to see how models for the Japanese family have been constructed.